Honda 'to have electric car on market by 2012'

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Honda 'to have electric car on market by 2012'

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Low Carbon Economy - 22/07/10

Car manufacturer Honda has announced that it intends to start selling low carbon vehicles by the year 2010.

Chief executive of the company Takanobu Ito said at a news conference that in two years' time it plans to release both electric and plug-in hybrid cars into the Japanese and US markets.

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'low carbon vehicles'

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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My porsche made out of diamonds is definitely not a low-carbon vehicle :D
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Coal! 8)
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Green cars. Do they suck in C02 and pollutants? Fill the oil wells back up with oil? Unkill people. The last one was just plain silly.
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the mad cyclist wrote:Green cars. Do they suck in C02 and pollutants?
No, they just suck.

At least they're not red cars. If we all had one of those, we'd be a red car nation.

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RogueMale wrote:At least they're not red cars. If we all had one of those, we'd be a red car nation.
A certain resort in the north-east might welcome such a thought.
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